Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
One would be hardpressed to think of a bad time to visit Zions National Park. Maybe the height of summer, when the park is hot and filled with tourists? Even then it’s not a terrible way to spend a weekend. Visiting in the fall, when the temps are […]
Time is a tricky thing. Minutes tick by and hours slip through our fingers never to be held again. Internationally recognized performance artist Marilyn Arsem is bringing her talents to Salt Lake City and tackling this elusive theme in a piece titled Marking Time. In a press […]
Over UEA weekend I took a trip with the family to the desert, and we stayed for a couple of nights at the Ramada Copper Queen Casino in Ely, Nevada. It’s an odd sort of hotel, with an open floor plan similar to many residential homes: all the […]
If you’ve never voted before, make this the year you do. Tomorrow you can go to your polling stations to cast your ballot for local, state and national elections. But today you can cast your vote for Utah’s Art Magazine. Not every state has an art magazine like […]
Ann Poore sent this to us recently, a snippet from the acclaimed autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame: During the day Lawrence and I would take the usual route to Soho, followed by a “gallery crawl” inspecting the new paintings in each gallery. This was his duty, […]
When she was about five, artist Shalee Cooper says her little sister Chantel had a polka dot shirt, and Shalee and older sister Dawn would tease Chantel, saying, “What’s all that polka dot business?” “Now,” Cooper says, “I can’t get rid of the polka dots. I see them […]
Some amazing photographs have appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine. One of the most enduring is Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl. Shot in 1985, the iconic image brought a face to the conflict in Afghanistan. The girl, Sharbat Gula, wears a vulnerable and terrified expression on […]
Midvale artist Sue Martin is a busy lady this month. As noted in a post last week, one of her paintings is a prize winner at the Utah Watercolor Society exhibit at Patrick Moore Gallery. Another work was accepted into the University of Utah juried exhibit that just […]
To honor our volunteer photographers, who do such a fine job making Utah’s Art Magazine look fabulous, we’ve decided to begin a new feature in our Daily Bytes section. In Saturday Snaps we will feature a photograph from one of our photographers. The photographs featured may be about […]
Halloween and Day of the Dead exhibits and events at Blonde Grizzly, Charley Hafen Gallery, Dunce School for the Arts and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.
The Utah Watercolor Society opened their Fall 2012 exhibition at Patrick Moore Gallery on Friday. The exhibition, which is up through November 2, was juried by artist Donna Zagotta. 2012 UWS Fall Member Exhibition Award Winners Best of Show Downtown Salt Lake – Brienne Brown Award of Excellence […]
The October 2012 edition of 15 Bytes featured a video interview with Stefano Catalani and Mary Anne Redding, jurors of Utah Arts & Museum’s statewide annual exhibition Utah 2012: Craft & Photography. Because the winners of the exhibition had yet to be announced, we withheld the final […]
On Saturday evening, about seventy-five people descended on the Sun Tunnels in Utah’s west desert to watch the sunset with the artist Nancy Holt, who is in town for the opening of her exhibit Sightlines, at the UMFA (read about it in the October edition of 15 Bytes). […]
On October 19, photographs from a workshop held in Centennial Valley, MT will be unveiled at Artspace Commons. The exhibit, Tutored by the Land, is titled after a quote from Barry Lopez, a well-known author with a love for the environment who calls fieldwork “being tutored by the […]
Pecha Kucha night is back and once again will be held at the State Room, 638 S. State St., on Oct. 22 from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 and on sale now at www. thestateroomslc.com and they sell out fast. As we told you in detail […]
True story. Last weekend I was with my family at the Sun Tunnels. Two weeks before the big Nancy Holt event, and on a Monday to boot, we thought we might have the place to ourselves (see below for tips getting there). Two other lovers of art […]
My first published writings on art were written in Southern California, and published by a magazine in Portland, Oregon. They were written in the LA area because that was where my stained glass studio was, and the city was then a hot place for glass art. My […]
Next weekend the party is at Lucin, the old railroad watering stop near the Nevada border where Nancy Holt, and a throng of colleagues, admirers and (one must assume) hangers on, will be at Sun Tunnels for sunset. So maybe that has you thinking a bit about land […]
THE SKINNY UMOCA announced last week that they will be starting a new Artist in Residence program. The residency will offer free studio space, private meetings with national curators, critics, and other art world professionals, workshops in professional development, monthly critiques, special access to visiting artists and lecturers, […]
